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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Back in the day',
	'<{subtitle}>' => 'Written in <span title="World Literature">ENGL 1405</span> by <a href="https://y.st./">Alex Yst</a>, finalised on 2018-06-27',
	'<{copyright year}>' => '2018',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<p>
	The assignment is to apply our current world view to the world depicted in the story we read for class, explaining how our daily life would change if we had to live in that world.
	Not much is seen of the world depicted by <a href="https://classicshorts.com/stories/force.html">The Use of Force</a> though.
	A medical doctor makes a house call to a child patient, a patient found to be quite uncooperative, despite the fact that their life is on the line (Williams, n.d.).
	The main thing we know of this depicted world is that it was set in the past, when doctors still made house calls.
</p>
<p>
	The biggest way my daily life would be different back then is that I wouldn&apos;t be keeping a daily journal like I do today.
	I never got into keeping a journal on paper, so without computers, I wouldn&apos;t have a journal at all.
	I also wouldn&apos;t be the programmer I am, nor the webmaster.
	I&apos;d have to find some other passion, some other hobby, and some other future career.
	I&apos;d have an entirely different life.
	I probably wouldn&apos;t be free to admit the individual of nonbinary gender I am either, and would likely have to pretend my gender matched my sex to avoid being shunned from society.
	I&apos;m a queer, and queers weren&apos;t as accepted back then as we are these days.
</p>
<p>
	As for the events of the story, I wouldn&apos;t even be involved, unless I was to be the doctor.
	I&apos;d never be the type to have children, so I wouldn&apos;t be one of the parents, nor would I fight against a medical professional that simply wished to examine my throat, so I wouldn&apos;t be the child.
	I at times decline medication, but never examination.
	And if the disease is as bad as it was made out to be in the story, the medication would be potentially life-saving.
	I usually only decline medication when it treats symptoms instead of causes, so I would <strong>*want*</strong> the doctor to help me recover from the life-threatening disease.
	Plus, you don&apos;t lie to medical professionals about your symptoms.
	It&apos;s just never a good idea.
	Had I been the doctor, I&apos;d like to say I&apos;d&apos;ve shown more restraint, but there&apos;s a good chance I wouldn&apos;t have.
	While the doctor wasn&apos;t quite as patient with their patient as they could have been, said patient was a little brat and deserved what they got and more.
	They were needlessly making difficult the job of someone literally trying to save their life from a disease.
</p>
<div class="APA_references">
	<h2>References:</h2>
	<p>
		Williams, W. C. (n.d.). The Use of Force--William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). Retrieved from <a href="https://classicshorts.com/stories/force.html"><code>https://classicshorts.com/stories/force.html</code></a>
	</p>
</div>
END
);
